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The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies The Dialect of Cornwall In Conjunction with Brian Stevens Recorder of Dialect |
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The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies The Dialect of Cornwall In Conjunction with Brian Stevens Recorder of Dialect |
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Won't. Will not |
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Was |
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Wack |
Allowance. Wealth. Money. (Plenty of Wack) |
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Wad. Also Wod |
Handful of hay (or staw) |
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Waiter |
A tea tray |
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Wallage |
A bundle |
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Walvin |
Wallowing or walking aimlessly |
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Wambling |
Stomach rumbling. Feeling sick etc |
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Wance |
Once |
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Want(s) |
Mole(s) |
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Want-hill. Want-pile |
A mole hill |
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Wan. Waun |
One |
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Waunce |
Once |
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Waps |
The Gadfly. Also Wasps |
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Warra |
A Pulley |
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Warm(Wart) |
To Warrant |
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Wartha. |
Higher |
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Watcha-eer |
A form of greeting |
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Wattery |
Faint and Hungry |
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Waunder |
Wonder. Perplexed |
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Way |
Reason. Why |
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Wassacum |
What-do-ee-call-um? |
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Wazygoose |
A contrivance for frightening birds |
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Wed'n |
With it. With him |
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Wee-war |
Lopsided |
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Ween |
To chirp or cry plaintively. To take away from the mother (pigs, calves etc) |
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Wee-wow |
Wobbling about. Unsteady |
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Wees |
Small gentry. Persons of great pretensions and little qualifications |
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Wered |
Wore |
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Weth |
With |
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Wedder |
Weather. "It's fine wedder today" |
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Weggas |
The bindweed |
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Well-near. |
Almost. nearly |
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Werraking |
Swinging something clumsily |
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Werratting |
Annouing.Teasing.Worrying |
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Wat-ee-may-call |
Something difficult to apply a name to |
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Weth-en |
With them |
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Werry. |
Weary. Also 'very" |
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West-ome |
Way home |
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We. |
Us |
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Wes |
Was |
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Whacca |
Sweetness, Sweetmeats |
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Whan |
When |
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What-ee-me-call |
Can't think of the name |
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Wheal |
A mine |
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Wheal-easy |
Applied to employment where work is dodged |
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Wheel-barra, (Berrer) |
Wheel-barrow |
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Wher |
Where |
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Whiffle-head |
Empty-headed |
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Whilk |
A stye |
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Whiddles |
Whims. Fancies. Stupid ideas |
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Whiff. Whiffing |
Fishing with lines trailing behind boat |
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Whirl |
The hip joint |
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Whiddy-man. Widdy-woman |
Widower. Widow |
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Whistercuff. |
A box on the ear. A blow |
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Whisht |
Thin. Sickly. Wan-looking. Sad. Lonely |
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Whitear |
The gristle in meat |
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Whitneck. Whitnick |
Weasle |
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White witch |
A fortune teller. A quack |
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Whittle |
A small shoulder blanket |
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Whiz |
To throw quickly. A blow |
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Whizabout. |
A whirlgig |
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Widden |
Small pig. Smallest of the brood |
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Widdle(s) |
To wiggle. To squirm. To wag. To jerk |
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Wiff. |
A cape |
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Whilligog. |
a whirlgig |
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Wilt |
Will you |
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Winding. Windy |
Winnowing. To winnow |
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Winder |
Window |
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Windle |
A windlass |
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Windspur. |
The roof at the gable of a house |
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Wing |
Furze. Gorse |
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Windarly. |
Sick. Faint |
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Winner |
Winnard. Kind of small bird |
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Winky-eye |
Game played by hitting rotten eggs while blindfolded |
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Winnard |
The Redwing |
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Winnick |
Cheat. Take in. Deceive |
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Winspur |
A raised wind course on a gable |
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Wisht |
Melancholy. Sad. Look ill. |
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Wisnt. |
Worried |
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Withy |
Rushes or willows |
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Wod |
A blow |
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Woddle |
A quantity of weak liquid |
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Wollas |
Lower. Below |
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Wog |
To walk with rolling motion |
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Wogmire |
Marsh. Quagmire |
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Wonders |
Frost bites. Stinging sensation caused by cold in the finger. |
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Wood tin |
Tin ore strongly resembling wood |
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Worm |
weakling |
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Wor-wop |
Smack. Clout |
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Wounde |
Wound |
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Wrastling |
Wrestling |
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Wot-not. |
A corner china stand |
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Wrinkle |
A periwinkle |
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Wudden |
Would not. Wouldn't |
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Wust-aw |
Will you |
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Wust |
Worst |
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Wusta? |
Will you? |
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Wuth |
Worth |
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